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Sears, a U.S. retail titan that has filed for bankruptcy, owes a Vietnamese textile company upwards of $4 million. Sears Holdings filed for bankruptcy on October 15 after failing to make a $134 million debt payment tranche. Its subsidiaries, Sears, Roebuck and Kmart are partners of Vietnamese textile firm Thanh …

Vietnamese Minister of National Defense Ngo Xuan Lich has asked the United States to actively cooperate with Vietnam in a project to remove dioxins from a military airport in the southern province of Dong Nai. Minister Lich made the suggestion during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis …

The recent encounter between their warships in the South China Sea shows China will confront the U.S. on key issues. Experts also say that the encounter is a sign that tensions have escalated and are unlikely to abate in the near future. Chinese destroyer Luyang approached the USS Decatur, a …

A former NSA hacker whose leak of extremely top secret online spying materials led to the U.S. government ban on Kaspersky software has been sentenced to jail. Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, a 10-year veteran of the elite Tailored Access Operations (TAO) hacking unit of the National Security Agency (NSA), pleaded …

Vietnam could suffer collateral damage if Chinese businesses use made-in-Vietnam labels to avoid U.S. tariffs, experts warn. Economist Vu Dinh Anh said it is “highly possible” that Chinese businesses would seek to export their goods through Vietnam to the U.S. amid the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. …